Stuff Apostolics Like

Caption: Is this not the perfect embodiment of the eeriness of this time of year?!? It's a picture my mom took when I was two years old. If you can't tell, it's at least triple exposed (boy in pumpkin costume, barn, and outline of people at top of barn).  Editor's Note: This one may be a bit different for a blog post. I struggled with it, because it was perhaps the least typical of all SAL Posts, but take it for what it is worth. Also, keep in mind, I am in the Midwest which more than most places has a very distinct Autumn flavor to it. If you are not familiar with the scene I am portraying, please make sure you get up to the rural lodges of Wisconsin/Illinois/Minnesota/Ohio/Pennsylvania/Minnesota at least once in your lifetime during the month of October. Point being: Excuse my romanticism for this time of year, but if you lived here, you would so be doing the same thing. Song: Hoping for Hope If there is one shortcoming which I think supersedes all ...

Editor's Note: Apologize about the temporal gap of posts, just really busy lately. I also have one more post already written but i want to tweak it a bit, so expect that for Friday. Firstly, visit this youtube video link  (embedding disabled) for a context of what I think we are dealing with , but note the words "Oh my God" are said 3-4 times, so if this offends don't watch. Secondly, what does this have to do with us? Well I would argue that is how some of us (including myself at times) perceive our religious walk. The fire in the video obviously representing Hell, Dwight=God (knowing that if you light a match underneath someone, it will cause them to get going), the office=the last days. Let me be more rephrase: There is this dominant notion that we are in the Last Days before Christ's return to earth, and the book of Revelation tells us the last days are to be defined by wars upon wars, messes upon messes, World War III, panic of panics...basically the f...

Note: Originally this little post was part of a much larger post, but as I wrote it I decided that it was not only too long, but distracted from the overall point. Therefore, I elected to write this separately and post it as a sort of precursor to the bigger article I'm putting up sometime in the near future. Please remember, this is intended to be humorous and sarcastic. Have you ever noticed the lopsided nature of the “Watch how you speak, there’s power in your words” and the “Don’t speak that, don’t call that down on yourself/them!” The basis for this is generally given as Proverbs 18:21, but somehow it seems to have gone off the track. Let me elaborate: If one was to say, “My nose has been running, I’ve got headaches, and my throat is getting scratchy. I’d say I’ve got a cold, I’d better go to the doctor.” You are liable to hear, like a refrain, “Hey now, don’t speak that! Don’t claim that for yourself! You’ve got power in your words and you mustn’t speak that!” Now, i...

Editor's Note: Once again, I beg you to please read. Because this is just fantastic writing on my part. It's just phenomenal. I'm the Nobel prize-winning author of Apostolic writers in this post. Also, you may want to kill me by the end of this read if you are not wanting to kill yourself by then (Only metaphorically of course). And you get songs! Start here...."Yeah Yeah Yeah" by the Flaming Lips. It's only like the catchiest song in the world. The Dirty Little Secret There is a dirty secret that I and you and your own mother prefer not to talk about. It's a secret that I am just now confronting. It seems obvious enough, but I'm a slow learner. It lurks in the darkest corner of my conscience and I would just as soon like to get rid of it, the moment I found it. But it's not so easy. It may take years or even a lifetime of digging at it with my fingernails to even have the remotest chance at casting it to the abyss. And even at this assumpt...